Chapter 489 Mission 1
He also stood on a horse and stood at the end of a long shrine. The wind blew from behind him to the palace hundreds of meters away. On both sides of the shrine stood a pair of stone statues such as stone people, stone horses, stone images, etc.
This was the last area of the imperial tomb of the Great Chu State that he led his troops to dig.
The reason why he stood at the upper vent is because he was really scared of the stinky smell of corpses these days. Only by standing here can you smell less of the stinky smell of corpses.
These days more than 10,000 soldiers under his command took the initiative to eat only some porridge and no longer eat meat. Because they want to vomit when they see the meat!
The imperial tombs of the Great Chu State in Songzhou are divided into four areas. In addition to the Seven Emperors and Eight Tombs, there are thousands of tombs of princes, princesses, and ministers who are buried with them.
Xie Ye and his soldiers all felt that digging graves these days was more tiring than fighting. It was because there were too many graves buried here!
But the harvest was also huge! Seeing the burial objects found in the grave piled up like mountains, everyone was smiling.
"Prince, how can you fight with so many things?" A personal soldier next to him asked with a smile.
"I have already thought about it. I will send two thousand people to escort everything back to Yanshan Mansion for good care. Let's wait for the arrival of the subsequent troops here." Xie Yezhi replied proudly.
"We went south, and with more than 10,000 people, the army in the Great Chu State fled. The army behind us didn't need to fight and rushed over, but it didn't take long to come." Xi continued.
He was very satisfied with his leadership of the army south this time. He had both made contributions and gained great benefits. Let Wu Shu and the others chew bones in Zhending Mansion and Yanshan.
"If the Emperor of Great Chu knew that we had dug up all his ancestral tombs, would he send a large army to fight us?" the personal soldiers continued to ask.
"Okay, let them do it. I'm afraid they don't have the courage." Xi said disdainfully.
He has been stranding here for half a month, and no army of the Great Chu State rushed over.
They had dragged out the bodies of dead emperors of the Great Chu State from their graves and exposed them to the sun for several days, but no Great Chu State's army arrived.
In fact, when the digging graves started in Songzhou on the first day, someone ran to the capital hundreds of miles away to report the news.
After receiving the report, Zhang Xing fainted directly. When he woke up again, he beat his chest and stamped his feet and cried loudly.
But he couldn't come up with any way other than crying.
The will to serve the king had been issued, but the troops from all over the country were reluctant to come. A lot of memorials urging for food and salary were sent.
The total number of nominal imperial guards in the capital is more than 200,000, but the actual number is less than 100,000. These people are not even enough to guard the capital, and it is impossible to send them out.
As soon as Zhang Xing woke up, the eunuch whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor also knows about this. He asked Your Majesty to go to Longde Palace."
Zhang Xing really didn't want to meet his father at this time. However, the Great Chu State ruled the world with filial piety, and even to pretend, he had to bite the bullet and go there.
After Zhang Xing and Zhang Mao met, the father and son hugged each other and cried loudly. The bodies of the ancestors and ancestrals exposed to the wilderness was a great humiliation, and it was unbearable!
"How are you planning to be good about this?" Zhang Mao asked with a sob.
"The king-fighting troops have not arrived for a long time, so I really can't send out troops." Zhang replied in a difficult manner.
"If we cannot avenge our ancestors and ancestors, what are our fathers and sons? " Zhang Mao asked dissatisfiedly.
These things are not like when he was scared by the black bone man, nor when he fled in a hurry at night.
In the time of crisis, Zhang Mao wanted the ministers and the people to know that the Supreme Emperor was wise and that his son, the current Emperor of Great Chu, was incompetent.
How could Zhang Xing not know what his father was thinking? That is, until now, the first thing the two of them think of is power, a power struggle.
"When the army of kings arrives, my son must avenge his ancestors!" Zhang Xing replied gritting his teeth.
Zhang Mao's face calmed down. He asked Li Gou'er to bring Zhang Xing a cup of tea.
"You have worked hard these days. How can I not know that I have been the emperor for more than 20 years? It's too hard to sit in that position." Zhang Mao said emotionally.
When Zhang Mao was emperor, he was upset by government affairs. He envied those Taoist priests who practiced alchemy and often fantasized about giving up the throne and living a leisurely and happy life.
But when he was really idle, he deeply realized that sitting on the dragon throne in the world can truly make him happy.
"You can drag the matter of revenge and avenge your shame. But you can't expose the dragon bodies of several late emperors to the wilderness and let the wind and rain, right?" Zhang Mao said.
Zhang Xing knew that this was his unwillingness to lose power and forced him to make a fool of himself in front of the world.
If the ministers and the people in the court felt that he was incompetent, his father would have the opportunity to regain power.
"My son must do this after he goes back!" Zhang Xing gritted his teeth and agreed.
After Zhang Xing said goodbye in a hurry, Zhang Mao stared at the teacup in front of him for a long time and did not move. Just now, Zhang Xing had not picked up the teacup for so long and took a sip of tea. It was not that he was not thirsty but he did not dare. Zhang Xing should be afraid that his father would release poison in the tea.
The father and son have suspected that they have reached this level.
The first thing Zhang Xing did when he returned to the palace was to give him tea. Then he picked up the tea cup and drank it in one sip.
"Wang Zao, the clerk of the Secretariat, immediately entered the palace." Zhang Xing said.
People in the capital are now in panic. Many ministers are busy cleaning up their families and sending their whole family out of the capital. Every day, there are hundreds of vehicles leaving the city at the south gate of the capital.
Wang Zao has been busy doing this these days, making his family chaotic. His wife has four or five concubines, seven or eight children. The gold and silver ingots accumulated in the officialdom over the years and the brocade silk filled more than a dozen large trucks.
Then arrange reliable people to escort out of the capital. Wang Zao needs to do everything himself.
At this moment, Wang Zao received the will to ask him to go to the palace to see the emperor immediately.
There is no good thing, there is no good thing!
On the way to the palace, Wang Zao kept muttering in his heart.
Wang Zao went into the palace to salute Zhang Xing and waited for His Majesty's question. However, Zhang Xing did not speak for a long time.
After a long time, Zhang Xing asked slowly: "The last time you came back from Yanshan and said that you saw Xiao Yan, the Minister of Rites, there? How is he doing?"
"Xiao Yan is indeed in Yanshan now. How can he live with a group of salt people who sell coolies? It seems to be very hard." Wang Zao replied.
"In all dynasties, there is no dynasty that treats scholars and officials more favorably than the Great Chu State. Why did Xiao Yan leave? And he still live a hard life?" Zhang Xing continued to ask.
Chapter completed!